WEEK 3: Heavenly Harmonies of J.S.Bach! 🌤
Welcome to the Main Thread for the third week of the J.S.Bach Challenge! This is the place to post submissions of the third week!
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Here is my first attempt of the Loure from the violin suite in E. I didn’t quite know how to approach this piece (you don’t hear that many Loures). I try to emphasize the 1st and 4th beat to give it pulse, but it’s hard to keep going with all these ornaments,. And I think those are essential in this score. Anyone ideas on this? First I planned to play the 1st time without, but when recording I forgot about that idea.
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Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring - from Cantata BWV 147
After I practiced "Air on the G String" in the first week, I started practicing this one for 2 weeks. My playing is not good, but it's almost the end of Bach's month, so I think it's time to share my practice result with the community.
Things I found easy: The arrangement I have is a simplified version, so it's not too difficult, but still challenging to me.
Things I found difficult: Again, keeping the flow was very difficult when recording this piece. After starting the first note, those non-stop triplets were like water running down the hill, every tiny mistake would interrupt the flow of the music. I misplaced my fingers so many times when playing this piece, and kept re-recording it again and again.
Another difficult point was cross-string trills, this was my first time playing cross-string trills, still don't know what it should sound like.
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Hi, friends! For this 4th week I did something different (for me, at least). I listened to some pieces for clavichord and choose one to transcribe for two guitars.
…And the Oscar goes to... BWV 930 Prelude!!
I didn't find any recording with guitar or guitar duo, just pianos and clavichords. Maybe that is the WORLD PREMIERE of BWV 930 for guitar duo... 😄
Most recordings are at 90 BPM. To be honest, I prefer a bit faster, 100 or even so 120, but I followed the crowd.
I discovered that is not easy to record a guitar duo video... Anyway, the result is below. No ornaments, just experimentation. For me, it was like a playground!